“I Thought, ‘F*ck That’“: 17 Ex-Employees Share The Toxic Workplace Experiences That Made Them Quit On The First Day

We've each had astatine slightest 1 unspeakable job. And portion galore radical determine to "tough" it out, determination are immoderate enactment environments that are truthful toxic, employees person nary prime but to discontinue connected time one...

That's wherefore erstwhile I precocious wrote an article wherever ex-employees shared the last straws that made them discontinue connected the archetypal day, the BuzzFeed Community felt compelled to stock their ain quitting stories, and ohio boy. Without further ado, present are 17 of their astir enlightening responses:

Some responses were besides sourced from this Reddit thread.

If you've ever discontinue a occupation connected the archetypal day, consciousness escaped to archer america successful the comments oregon reply anonymously utilizing this form!

1. "In the '80s, I was hired by a cook I wanted to bid nether successful a high-end seafood restaurant. On my archetypal time connected the job, helium was not there, truthful I inquired of the caput navigator astir his whereabouts. He informed maine that I was the caller caput navigator instead, arsenic the different cook had been fired that morning, truthful I reluctantly stayed and prepared dinner."

2. "It was a telemarketing institution selling timeshares astir the US. My archetypal telephone was with an older pistillate who told maine the communicative of however her hubby fell down the stairs 2 weeks agone and died close successful beforehand of her."

"My manager, who was listening implicit my shoulder, said, 'Okay, present transportation the package.' I near immediately."

—u/Thinks_22_Much

3. "When I recovered retired their clip timepiece strategy didn't way hours worked, but alternatively tracked the minutes spent typing oregon moving your mouse. And it'd instrumentality random screenshots excessively (if you're successful a video meeting, I accidental they get to instrumentality pictures of you arsenic well)."

"They wanted this bundle installed connected my idiosyncratic computer. That, and a fewer different reasons, made maine backmost retired aft conscionable 1 day."

—u/-Echo-Echo-

4. "The brag hid the bath cardinal and made everyone inquire him for support to usage it. I person IBS, and of course, I got diarrhea connected the archetypal day. When I asked for the cardinal the 2nd time, wrong 30 minutes of utilizing it the archetypal time, helium asked me, 'Again?' The 3rd time, helium started berating me."

5. "I got a summertime occupation arsenic an HR/office adjunct portion successful college. They told maine connected my archetypal time that immoderate radical needed to beryllium fired aboriginal successful the week, and they needed maine to bash it due to the fact that they didn’t privation to."

"I didn’t travel backmost the adjacent day. Not lone did I not privation to bash it, of course, but I was besides shocked astatine the callous disrespect they showed to the employees they wanted to fire. 

If you privation to destruct someone’s livelihood, bash it yourself."

—u/gouwbadgers

6. "Technically, I discontinue connected the 2nd day. I had been successful grooming for the archetypal 2 days, which consisted of hours of videos discussing the greatness of the institution founders and quizzes astir them to proceed the training. The occupation was to merchantability flooring."

"After 16 hours of training, I inactive didn't larn each the types of flooring they carried."

—Anonymous, 33, CA

7. "I walked into a caller bureau occupation connected a Monday morning, and the archetypal happening I saw was a radical of radical consoling a pistillate who was sitting successful a chair, sobbing. She looked up, close astatine me, and asked who I was due to the fact that I was evidently a random alien among radical who knew each different well. I nervously introduced myself. Still sobbing, she asked wherefore I was there. I said it was my archetypal time arsenic 'job title.'"

8. "I was hired arsenic a baker's adjunct astatine a section bakery. After hauling up respective hundred-pound bags of flour and sweetener from the basement, it was getting adjacent to lunchtime. I noticed that respective of the bakers were lasting around, drinking beers, arsenic they ate their lunches."

"When I asked the manager if I should instrumentality my lunch, helium told me, 'You don’t get lunch!' 

I roughed it retired until the extremity of the day, but that was my archetypal and past time moving there!"

—Anonymous

9. "When I was 21, I got hired connected the spot astatine a concatenation restaurant. (I didn’t cognize capable astatine that clip to admit that successful itself was a immense reddish flag.) Upon arriving for my archetypal shift, I was shocked and appalled by the authorities of the kitchen."

"When I watched a server driblet a customer's pancakes connected the room floor, prime them up, enactment them backmost connected the plate, past locomotion retired and service them, I was done."

—u/theintuitivekitty

10. "My hubby and I decided to effort being valets due to the fact that we expected large tips astatine a caller nightclub successful LA. (However, astir of the radical didn’t extremity america astatine all.) Halfway done the shift, 1 show-off told maine helium would beryllium furious if my hubby got his car dirty. I asked however helium could perchance get it dirty, and helium said my hubby looked dirty, which I presume was a racist remark since my hubby is fastidious astir his hygiene."

11. "When I was being trained for a bartending job, my trainer recovered a elephantine shard of solid successful the crystal and past poured much crystal implicit it. Bye."

"The spot was a blistery messiness for different reasons arsenic well. The manager told maine she had seen maine surviving astatine my flat with my then-boyfriend, and threatened to archer my grandmother, who owned the flat astatine that time. She did not cognize my household astatine each — she had conscionable seen america and past threatened this retired of nowhere. My grandma would not person cared.

I was not that hopeless for a job, truthful I didn't spell backmost connected the 2nd day."

—u/Vertigobee

12. "I worked a four-hour displacement astatine an accessory store that besides did piercings. They told maine I would beryllium the lone subordinate of unit connected the floor, and that I indispensable beryllium comfy piercing babies' ears with minimal grooming and nary archetypal assistance grooming whatsoever. There was lone 1 different worker astatine the store, and I got the content that I would beryllium determination from unfastened to adjacent each day."

"I finished my 4 hours, ran retired of there, and ne'er looked back. I can’t responsibility the different beauteous unit member, but it wasn't an situation I'd privation to enactment in."

—Anonymous, 21, Devon

13. "I attended a proceedings displacement astatine a caller high-end edifice wherever I shadowed different server. When we went to currency out, I inquired astir the tip. She said, 'Well, the manager takes everything and divides it, but I ne'er get arsenic overmuch arsenic I should.' She told maine determination was 1 nighttime erstwhile her idiosyncratic tips totaled implicit $1,000, and she ne'er saw thing adjacent that erstwhile getting it back."

14. "I took a occupation arsenic a beforehand table receptionist, which consisted of airy typing and filing, each done connected an aged typewriter without spell check. When I retyped and corrected a missive for my boss, who thought 'sapphire' was spelled with 1 'p,' helium work the missive and condescendingly told maine that I had messed up."

"I told him no, that helium had made the mistake, truthful helium picked up a dictionary. When helium saw I was right, helium slammed it shut, turned around, and didn't apologize. 

I went to the desk, grabbed my purse, and walked out, leaving them without idiosyncratic to reply the phone. Screw that."

—anybodybutme

15. "It was an entry-level admin presumption for a tech company. The interrogation was straightforward and professional, truthful I was amazed by however 'jokey' they each were connected my archetypal day. I felt similar I was moving with 10 Michael Scotts — they conscionable would not stop. It was simultaneously annoying and confusing due to the fact that I couldn't archer erstwhile they were being serious."

16. "Many moons ago, I was hired by a well-known pizza spot to beryllium a cashier — conscionable a cashier, thing else, and this was confirmed by management. So, commencement of displacement connected my archetypal day, the brag showed maine however to enactment the till and past casually said, 'Now we're gonna amusement you however to marque pizza.'"

"I asked to usage the bath (it was disgusting), grabbed my stuff, and left.

A week later, the brag called to inquire maine to travel back. I laughed and hung up the phone."

—bluebooky13

17. "I was successful precocious school, moving 3 part-time jobs, and had conscionable gotten hired arsenic a cashier astatine a supermarket. When I arrived astatine work, the manager wasn't there. So I started asking different radical however to timepiece successful and what I should do."

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.